Four days left to square the circle on global plastic pollution treaty

Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge. While plastic has transformed modern life, plastic pollution poses an...

Solar for All grantees warn EPA funding cuts limit access to affordable energy

The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to cancel $7 billion from an initiative aimed at helping low-income communities install solar panels will raise costs for many at a time of rising electricity prices, grantees of the program are...

How Pets Secretly Impact the Environment

They’re our companions, our comfort, and our favorite subjects for endless photos—but pets also come with an environmental side effect that rarely makes headlines. Every bite they eat and every bit of waste they leave behind adds up to a...

UN Plastic Pollution Talks Face Deadlock

Talks at the United Nations aimed at securing a landmark treaty to combat plastic pollution are falling short of expectations, the negotiations chair has warned in a candid midway update. The meeting, which began on Tuesday, has four days...

Iowa residents press for urgent action on farm pollution as water crisis deepens

Hundreds of Iowans gathered in Des Moines to confront mounting evidence that farm runoff is contaminating drinking water and possibly driving the state’s rising cancer rates. Carey Gillam reports for The New Lede. In short: A new Polk...

New Climate Report Deserves to Be Debated, Not Silenced

A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of...

Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution

Plans for a congestion charge on Auckland drivers might not lower the city's pollution. File photo. Photo: RNZ / Lucy Xia Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue...

Putin Signs Decree Allowing Russia to Raise Greenhouse Gas Emissions

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree allowing Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by about 20% by 2035 compared to 2021 levels. Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, aims to reach net-zero...

Donald Trump to 'shut down' NASA missions that measure crucial greenhouse gas emissions

The Trump administration is set to terminate two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially cutting off a data source for scientists, policymakers and farmers. President Donald Trump's budget request for...

This Prehistoric Predator Survived Global Warming by Eating Bones

About 56 million years ago, when Earth experienced a dramatic rise in global temperatures, one meat-eating mammal responded in a surprising way: It started eating more bones. That's the conclusion reached by a Rutgers-led team of researchers,...

EPA admin claims greenhouse gases not causing climate change

By CAPT. DAVE MONTI, Special to Beacon Media In a proposed rule released last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) argued that the Clean Air Act does not authorize the agency to set emissions standards to address global climate...

Countries are trying to negotiate a groundbreaking international treaty on combating plastic pollution

Pakistan's deadly floods worsened by global warming: study

Pakistan's monsoon rain was likely heavier because of climate change, making floods more dangerous, a new study found. The report from World Weather Attribution, a group of international scientists who study global warming's role in extreme...

Filipino-made engine nozzle developed to help PUV drivers cut fuel costs, emissions

Source: https://www.greentechecobooster.com/ Philippine Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) drivers can now take part in reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions while saving on fuel costs by using a patented fuel engine nozzle developed by a...

The Russian President instructed the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 65-67% by 2035

AK&M 06 August 2025 18:24 Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 65-67% by 2035 relative to 1990 levels in order to implement the Paris Agreement. This is reported on the website of...

Eastern Standard - Aug. 14th, 2025

This week on Eastern Standard: Under the Trump administration, the EPA is moving to relax anti-pollution controls and is dismantling its scientific research arm. We invited Kentucky Resources Council executive director Ashley Wilmes, an...

Dozens of nations oppose "unacceptable" draft plastic treaty text

The European Union, along with many other countries, has criticized the latest draft of an ongoing treaty aimed at ending plastic pollution, arguing that the text is too weak and gives too many concessions to oil producers. The new text is a...

OP-ED: Pa. has chance to reduce pollution and save lives

If you find yourself thinking the weather keeps getting more frightening, you’d be right. The frequency and severity of weather events — heat waves, floods, windstorms, wildfires, droughts, etc.-are getting worse. By now, you’ve probably been...

EDITORIAL: Nuclear needs experts, not voters

Taiwan is to hold a referendum on Saturday next week to decide whether the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down in May after 40 years of service, should restart operations for as long as another 20 years. The referendum was proposed...

‘Pollution, administrative lapses affecting Goa’s coastal ecosystem’

Panaji: Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao said that a Goa State Pollution Control Board water quality study showed high organic and sewage pollution in creeks, beaches and rivers, rendering them unfit for bathing and fishing, even as Aldona...